ITunes Just Duplicated All My Most Recent Podcast Episodes

I believe this has happened to me before. It is endlessly annoying, as "new" episodes of everything will now show up on my iPod. I don't know why this happened or how to prevent it in the future. Any ideas?
Also, any suggestions on a simpler way to fix the immediate problem than manually selecting each duplicate podcast for deletion?
Thanks.

I don't know how you have managed to achieve this, but you have got yourself into a tangle. The feed you linked to is fine, but iTunes is in fact looking for a feed at
http://soundedgoodonpaper.com/comic/?feed_slug=cbl
and this is not a feed but a web page, and so iTunes can't read it. Consequently the Store is sticking on the cached version of the last time it was able to read the feed, and subscribing does not work.
I have no idea how this has happened, but it leaves you seriously stuck. Your only option is to email Support at podcasts 'at' apple.com and ask them to move the Store to using the proper feed URL. Give them the URLs of the Store page and both feeds.

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I'm seeing 5 episodes listed on your page in the iTunes Store, and 6 episodes (the latest being today's) when I subscribe. No doubt this 6th episode will appear in the iTunes Store too when it next crawls your feed.
So maybe the problem you're seeing is with your install of iTunes? Have you tried looking at the iTunes Store from a different computer?

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Your feed is at http://blacktribbles.podomatic.com/rss2.xml
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4. KURT ANGLE
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